Has council gone mad?

Well the notorious designers of the shelters planned them that way so all internal activity will be highly visible, thus preventing them for becoming a “hunting ground for unsavoury types”. So we, who are only seeking proper shelter from the elements, are as usual ignored.

There is even a draughty hole in the roof so that, I suppose, passing helicopters may be able to monitor the nefarious goings-on within the structures. Has the council gone mad? This is typical of the big plans it has for us.

Do you know why they approved the building of the De La Warr Heights? To change the demography of Sackville Road, to bring thrusting young executives into the town. Well, we all know what has happened to that idea.

Devonshire Square was planned as a “sun-drenched piazza” with “entertainments”. That didn’t work either.

Other examples of the ludicrous plans have been closing the Marina toilets at Channel View, building huge office blocks right by the De La Warr Pavilion and getting rid of the tourist office.

So how can we trust the council with possible plans for the Colonnade - for a high-class “destination restaurant”?

This week I delivered 600 ratepayers’ letters to the council opting rather for a seafront cafe with light meals or a holidaymakers’ eaterie. The council might listen but I fear the usual culprits are so full of folie-de-grandeur they will forge onward with yet another hare-brained and ill-considered scheme.

JACKIE BIALESKA

Vox Pop